Tag: Filipino class

Happy World Teachers’ Day!

| 5 October 2010 | 10 Comments
Happy World Teachers’ Day!

Would you believe that the first time I heard about World Teachers’ Day was at our regular teachers’ meeting a few weeks ago. I scribbled it on my daily planner so I could remember to observe the event in schools. I’ve been working as a teacher for five years here but I’ve not seen schools celebrating World Teachers’ Day. [...]

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Mother Language Week

| 25 February 2010 | 8 Comments
Mother Language Week

It’s definitely not a good week to celebrate Mother Language Week.  And definitely not a pleasing idea to bring the students to a museum to see an exhibit when it’s snowing non-stop.  But the plan was agreed beforehand so we proceeded.  Children don’t complain about the weather, anyway.  It’s adults like me who are capable of making a big [...]

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Excuse Me For Being Absent

| 10 October 2009 | 36 Comments
Excuse Me For Being Absent

“Please excuse Jennifer for missing school yesterday. We forgot to get the Sunday paper off the porch, and when we found it Monday, we thought it was Sunday.” “I didn’t come to school yesterday because I was feeling like I was going to be sick, but thankfully I wasn’t!” I am not writing about students [...]

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Teaching Filipino In A Foreign Land

| 8 September 2008 | 30 Comments
Teaching Filipino In A Foreign Land

Nagsasalita ba kayo ng Filipino? You read it right and you must think it’s a kind of business I venture in this foreign land. But no, I’m a government employee here teaching Filipino to children with Filipino parents, mostly Filipino individuals married to Swedish nationals. Although I used to teach in Davao, I never expected [...]

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